Anime con is next weekend. Can't type for now.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, but I have 1000 words stuck in my head.
Before I continue, I need to say something potentially serious. I fear I may be turning into Yuna. Haha! Gotcha! For the past 2 weeks I somehow magically knew the lyrics to "1000 words". I HAVE NEVER EVEN KNOWN ONE VERSE TO THAT SONG EVER! I found myself talking to myself to Cedric, like Yuna does in X2 (Who was basically my Tidus cause he randomly jumped off sometin' like yellow shoe boy once), and I found myself randomly dancing. None of this was intentional either! Do I have some disease... like Yunaitis of something?
Chapter 7: Ruining Moments and Hockey
Before we even entered the woods, Rikku stopped us.
"Wait. Can't we go AROUND the woods?" She asked.
"What is it NOW?" Shea replied.
For some reason Rikku started talkin' in a southern rednecky accent.
"Well... See. There were these twins, the Brarala twins. They went into tha woods, been there hundreds ah times, but this time they got LOST. Couldn't find there way. Then they saw this woman. She was up in tha air, FuhLOATin'! She took their heads, SWITCHED 'EM, like it was a sick game! Then she took their bodies. She SWITCHED them too! They came back lookin' esaccly the same, but we all KNEW... They'd been all switched up!" She ranted.
We all started at her with that weird shocked/confused look for the good part of 15 minutes. I finally walked up to her and slapped her. We continued into the woods. The group reached the entrance of a forest area. Rikku was still huddled up, walking alone. I guess she noticed there was no thunder or lightning, although you gotta admit it is amazing it too her so long to realize something like that. She unhuddled and stopped moving. The rest of the group walked past her. She jumped up in joy and slipped on the icy ground, sliding after the rest of the group. Auron stopped me and pulled me off to the side. Oh no! I'm not failing math again am I?!
"Ahh! I'm sorry! I'll do my homework, just don't fail me!" I yelped.
"Pretz,
you're a nut case.... You're worried about Yuna, I can tell"
"Uh... no... That's Tidus... I don't really give a
shit what Yunie does at this point 'cause if I complain, she'll
just hit me..." I tried to convince him. No such luck.
"The
simplest answer would be... In exchange for agreeing to marry him...
She hopes to negotiate with Seymour" He continued.
Jeez!
He was like a psycho parent hell-bent on giving their kid the talk!
He wouldn't shut up!
"Please shut up, Auron" I said,
lying down on the ground.
"I wonder" He continued.
I said nothing, as I was starting to have a seizure.
"She's
strong, but Seymour is the better negotiator"
I guess my
flailing on the ground had attracted the attention of the group,
because they were starting to come over.
"Yuna wants it
this way..." Auron continued ranting.
My seizure had
stopped.
Kimahri had done the first verb for him in a long time. He helped me up and Auron was STILL talking."That's the way she is. She's naive, serious to a fault, and doesn't ask for help" He continued.
Man,
he doesn't know Yuna very well does he? Yuna of course herd him
saying this and smacked him with her staff. Auron staggered for a
minute like a drunk and STILL continued as if nothing had happened.
"Yuna's easy to read"
"Maybe you'd
better stop, Auron" I said.
Auron began to walk away.
"But
hard to guard. Stand by her, always"
"Once again, I
don't care! You're supposed to be telling TIDUS this, not me!"
I screamed.
It's funny how calm I was. Maybe it was because I realized that Yuna wasn't marrying Seymour for love. Not really. It was just her duty--something she had to do before returning to her pilgrimage. That's what I kept telling myself, anyway.
"Slowpokes!" Rikku said energetically, constantly doing the splits on the ice."Sorry!" Shea apologized for us all, "Hey, Pretz. I'll give you 150 gil to lick that tree"
"Hmm, I dunno. Isn't that dangerous......?" I inquired.
"Fine, I'll give you 250 gil!"
"Deal!" I yipped, grabbing the gil.
I stuck my tongue out and licked the tree. I tried to back up and mock Shea but my tongue was stuck to the tree.
"OH
NO! Mesh tong's suck!" I mumbled.
"Yuna, lets go"
Tidus FINALLY took his part.
She nodded and Rikku cheered.
They stared to walk away.
"Hewwo? Yluna? C'mon!" I tried to say through my tongue.
That seemed to be how a lot of things went. We had wandered around for a number of days, and several times Shea and I had to fend off Blair Witch style panic attacks on Rikku's part. So, I found this to be a PERFECT opportunity to teach them a little game: Hockey. One night when Lulu was asleep, I explained the game to them. We wandered around and found a bowl type clearing in the forest. It was perfect. We made some goals out of branches and used sticks that were pretty closely shaped to a hockey stick as sticks. We just needed a puck. A block of ice wouldn't work cause it was getting dark, so Shea, Rikku, and I went back to camp looking for something to use as a puck. There was Lulu's Cat Sith, a bottle of Tidus's precious hair gel, and the steaks Kimahri made. Well, they steaks worked for a while, but they kept on breaking the sticks. I grabbed a knife and tried sneaking Naruto style to Lulu's tent. I grabbed Lulu's Cat Sith, or whatever it was. I slowly cut it'd head off and put it body back where it was: between Lulu's giant boobs. I sprinted back to the rink and we picked teams. The captains were Yuna and Rikku. Yuna picked Kimahri first. I was first on Rikku's team. Yuna then picked Tidus and Rikku picked Shea. Yuna picked Auron next and Rikku picked Wakka. This is my time to shine I thought.
Well, of course not! Rikku made me a goalie! Kimahri slapped the puck at me at like 100 miles an hour. Of course I dove OUT of the way. After a few minutes of play I felt a tapping on my shoulder.
"Not now, Shea. Tidus is coming" I shooed who I thought was Shea away.
"What are you talking about? I'm over here-......"She started to say, but grew a mortified, horror-struck look on her face.
"There's something bad behind me, isn't there?"
Standing behind me was Lulu. The look on her face was bloodcurdlingly scary then that picture of Rikku shoved in a cabinet at the hotel. She said nothing and just held up her doll.
"It was Tidus" I promptly said.
She dropped the headless doll, grabbed one of my braids, and started strangling me with them. I would have died that night if it weren't for Kimahri. He finally calmed Lulu down a bit.
"Pretz good person. Kimahri protect Pretz" He said.
"You mean like a guardian?" I asked.
Kimahri nodded.
Wow.
My own guardian. Well, we continued onward. Along the way, Barthello
ran up to the posse.
"Hey! You, have you seen Dona?"
"Dona? Can't say I have" Tidus said.
"What's
up?" Wakka asked.
"We got separated on the way
here. Damn it all! I've got to find her!"
"Calm
down" Auron barked.
"How
the fuck do you lose a summoner?" I asked.
"But, if
anything happens to her..."
"Running around in a
panic is not going to help. Right now, you have to keep cool, and
search" Auron insisted.
"But--" "Guard
your emotions, then guard your summoner" "You're
right"
"Shall we search?" Auron asked.
"No,
I've taken up enough of your time. Thank you, Sir Auron"
He
did the prayer gesture, and then ran off. Rikku ran to the front of
the group, and then stopped.
"What's up?" Wakka
asked in the exact same tone as last time.
"Oh, I just
wanted to wish him good luck" She answered.
The flock
continued through Macalania Woods. we got to one area, where a man
dressed as a bird walked to the group.
"A butterfly with
golden wings will lead the way to secret things. Precious Precious"
Tidus lifted his foot.
"You mean this?"
The strange little man screamed.
"Ah! What have you done to the Precious!?"
Tidus
ignored him and put it in his pocket as we left. The group continued
through the forest, finally arriving at one area.
"Wait.
It is here...somewhere" Auron said.
"What's here?"
Tidus asked.
"Something you should see"
"But,
Sir Auron..." Yuna begged.
"It won't take long"
Auron sliced repeatedly into a tree, clearing a path for us
to pass through. He went first; we follow him. We were then standing
in a section of Macalania Woods beside a lake, with a large tree past
the lake.
"This place... It's just water, isn't it?"
Tidus asked again.
"This is what spheres are made of. It
absorbs and preserves people's memories" Auron explained.
It
felt good to not be the one people explained things to. Out of the
water came a large blob, which formed a big sphere.
"What's
that?" Wakka screamed.
"Fiends are also attracted to
these places" Auron said calmly.
"Thanks for the
warning!" I screamed.
After
a long fight it got destroyed, and melted. Afterwards, in the water,
we saw a sphere sitting. It was Jecht's Sphere.
"Whoa,
this is old! Don't know if you can play it back" Wakka
exclaimed.
"Jecht left it here ten years ago. Play it
back" Auron ordered.
"What are you taking?" A
younger Auron in the sphere asked.
"Well, you said it was
gonna be a long trip" Jecht said.
We saw Auron and Braska walking, with a large building in the background. Jecht was using the sphere like a video camera.
"We'll
be seeing a lot of neat things, right? So I thought I'd record it all
in this. To show to my wife and kid, you know"
"This
is no pleasure cruise!" Auron yelled at him.
Even when he was younger Auron was a hard ass.
"Hey, Braska. Ain't this supposed to be a grand occasion? Where're the cheering fans? The crying women?" Jecht laughed."This is it. Too many goodbyes--people think twice about leaving" Braska said calmly.
"Hmm... If you say so. Well, it better be a lot more colorful when we come back. A parade for Braska, vanquisher of Sin!" Jecht fantasized.
Braska laughed.
"We should go. Day will break soon" Braska said.
The sphere got turned off; the screen went black. It faded back in on any icy landscape; a Travel Agency was in the background. Jecht and Auron were standing far apart; Braska was now controlling the sphere.
"Auron, you could stand closer to him?" Braska asked.
Auron sighed, nodded, waited a few moments, and then went to stand beside Jecht. "Good. That should do it"
Above their heads, we noticed a banner that said 'Lake Macalania'.
"What's the matter? Afraid I might bite?" Jecht sneered.
"Jecht..."
"Braska! You should take one, too. It'd make a great gift for little Yuna!" Jecht laughed.
"I suppose"
Auron stepped forward.
"Lord Braska... We shouldn't be wasting our time like this!"
"What's the hurry, man?" Jecht asked in a very stoner-ish voice.
Auron walked towards Braska.
"Let me tell you what the hurry is!"
"Auron!" Braska tried to calm him down.
The sphere turned off."What's the point? He wasn't on some pleasure cruise" Tidus whined.
"I think there's more" Rikku pointed out.
The sphere's turned back on again. The area that Yuna and company were now in was shown, with the same big tree in the background. The sphere turned off, then on again. Jecht was talking to the sphere, which he placed on the ground.
"Hey. If you're sitting there, watching this... It means you're stuck in Spira, like me. You might not know when you'll get back home, but you better not be crying! Although, I guess I'd understand. But you know what? There's a time when you have to stop crying and move on. You'll be fine. Remember, you're my son. And... Well, uh... Never mind. I'm not good at these things"
He stood up, walked off-screen, and turned the sphere off. He soon turned it back on, holding it like a video camera again, so we didn't see him.
"Anyways...I believe in you. Be good. Goodbye"
The sphere finally turned off.
"He sounded almost serious, but it was too late" Tidus sighed.
"He was serious. Jecht had already accepted his fate" Auron started talking.
"His fate?" Girly boy asked.
"Jecht... He... He was always talking about going home, to Zanarkand. That's why he took all those pictures--to show them to you when he returned. But as he journeyed with us and came to understand Spira, and Braska's resolve... It happened gradually, but Jecht changed. He decided he would join Braska in his fight against Sin" Auron wouldn't shut up.
"So then, he gave up going home?" Tidus asked.
"That was his decision" Auron continued.
That is until I stood behind him wearing a mask of Yubaba from Spirited Away. Tidus burst out laughing and fell down. Auron stormed away.
"This
was getting to be too serious" I laughed.
"All right!
Let's go, guys!" Tidus cheered.
Maybe I had to start
accepting my own
fate.
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Ok! Ivan was AWESOME in my backyard! Anyway, this chapter was a little rushed, and it shows. Anime Weekend Atlanta was this weekend and if you were there on Saturday, you saw the many Yunas. That was my costume this year. Let me tell you something: The words masking tape and boob should NEVER be used in the same sentence! EVER! Spending time as Yuna made me sort of respect her in a way. She walks around in heels 24/7. Anyway, it took me 3 hours to make it from the bottom of the escalators, up and around artist's ally, and back down when I was with my FFX2 buddies. They were dressed as thief Yuna, gunner Paine, and warrior Rikku. As you might know they won the novice division of the costume contest. Playing FFX2 will never be the same to me after hanging out with them all day. On Friday there was a black mage Rikku, which I hope I can find online somewhere cause I didn't have a camera, and she didn't enter the costume contest as her. She was so much like Rikku though. Acting like a 6 year old I mean. "C'mon! I gotta pee! Where're we goin'? Hey mom. Hey mom. Hey mom. Hey mom. Hey mom. Hey mom. Hey mom. Hey mom. Hey mom." There was a cool Lulu with her too. AND I FOUND A LENNE! She was awesome. Me, her and some other girl are gonna be YRP next year, so tell me some Rikku and Paine dress sphere's you think they should be. I didn't get to enter cause my dad didn't bring the reference picture in time. I AM however on a number of sites, and will get those up once I find them. Next year I hope to go as Samurai Yuna, but I'd like to know what dress sphere you think I should go as. Cosplaying at Publix is funny when you're on your way home and want some doughnuts, and people are staring at you and your friends.